Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel

Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel Graf Tauentzein von Wittenberg (15 September 1760-20 February 1824) was a general of Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel Tauentzein was born in Potsdam, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Prussia on 15 September 1760. His father Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzein served under King Frederick the Great during the Seven Years' War. Tauentzein entered the Prussian Army in 1776 at the age of 15 and in 1791 was made a count following the death of his father. From 1793 to 1813 he was a royal aide-de-camp to King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and participated in the French Revolutionary Wars campaign of 1793. In 1801 he was promoted to Lieutenant-General and commanded the vanguard of the Hohenloe Corps at the Battle of Jena during the Napoleonic Wars in 1806; he was one of the few Prussian generals not to be dismissed after the defeat of the Fourth Coalition.

Tauentzein commanded the Prussian forces in the 1813 campaign from the front, taking part in the battle of Leipzig, the capture of Torgau, and the battle of Wittenberg, where he was ennobled for his victory. In 1815 he led a corps to intervene in the Hundred Days, but Napoleon's French army was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo before Tauentzein could reach France.